Finally back on the mountain bike after months of trying to build up the knee on the gym bike. I actually get less stress to the tendon from the mountain bike being electric assist. 5kms yesterday and 8 today but I’m feeling it, 6am starts. Trying to keep off the heavy pain killers. Its going to be the only way to get fit again. Found a new track to explore through a small national park. Lots of wildlife, mostly snakes and kangaroos.
What a better way to start the day.
What they don’t tell you on youtube with Vanlife is the maintenance. Its great when everything works but a major headache when something breaks down. The breaker switch burnt out and its taken three days to find a replacement on ebay. No other auto suppliers or electrical stores had the same one to fit in the available space. Ive had to replace it in the meantime with a 30 amp fuse to get power to the batteries from the solar.
A great Story !
Cloud shadows in the water
I removed many of the political posts on this site as well as many of the knife posts with the way the world and this country in particular is going but I wanted to re-post a segment how a two Party System worked as many western countries have this. Many people I have spoken to in the last week knew nothing of the Misinformation laws currently being sat on in Parliament. Ignorance is big business and business is good and relied upon by the establishment.
“The two party system exists all across the west. It is designed to provide the masses with the illusion of choice and quell dissent. If you think about the two party system as the left hand and right hand of the establishment. One of those hands create a problem intentionally and the opposing hand comes in and offers the solution. However the solution was always the goal of what the establishment wanted. It is sold as a solution to a problem created by the other side, so it creates the illusion that the opposing side solved a problem but in reality the problem was manufactured by one side and solution was offered by the other hand.”
How to recognise propaganda
1) When given a problem, fear rather than reason is used to present the solution.
2) When you’re pressured into accepting the solution.
3) When youre not allowed to question the solution.
4) When the solution involves surrendering your freedoms.
5) When your eyes see when thing, but your compelled to believe a different thing.
6) When the solution means giving small groups of people control over larger and larger things.
7) When dissenters are censored for refusing to accept the solution.
3 Pillars For The Total Control Of Society
The compliance process of the ministry of truth. A cashless society, central bank digital currency, information control.
Ive been neglecting my daily walks. Its taken months to rebuild the muscle in my knee after the last hospital stay. Back up to 75 kilo leg press but still a long way from the 100 kilo I was managing before loosing all the weight. This is the first day I wasn’t hobbling around in two years and decided to try a walk along the beach instead of the bike at the gym. My stride gradually became shorter and shorter. Ill be limping the rest of the day. Atleast the hard packed sand is better to walk on than the concrete.
Had a good day at the gym the day before. 20 mins on the bike followed by leg day. The good feeling soon evaporated after trying to do housework later in the afternoon. Got a little done but tweaked my shoulder and spent the rest of the night in pain from every small movement.
A friend coined the term “being sick of being sick”. I’m at the point now, well atleast sick of dealing with doctors. I wanted to bail on everything and head back interstate. The walk along the beach changed my attitude. Well calmed me down. I think every government department Ive dealt with in the past 25 years has either been completely corrupt, absolutely incompetent or useless revolving around their own employment rather than actually doing their jobs. Still no NDIS support.
I want to get back to doing my training courses. I’m going stir crazy in this state. There’s not much in the way of bush. The last year seems to be have been nothing but rehab. I’m not achieving anything.
Managed a few nice pictures of the morning.
Bike rack installed. Still trying to figure out how to charge the bike. Will need to run a line from the inverter.
Looking for spare wheel carriers to fit 265 All terrain tyres were priced at over $3000 for an imported version from the US. All I did was heat up the existing frame work to straighten out the bars and weld in another bracket to fit in the larger tyres. Total cost $150.
Its taken a month of bike work at the gym to build my lung capacity back up to 60%. Still a long way to go. Four months ago I was outlasting 25 year olds at the gym. Now I can barely walk out of there and am sleeping part way through the day. In the last week Ive started back doing weights. Ive lost so much conditioning that I’m only doing one set at minimal weight. For example 1 kilo shoulder press. The torn tendon in the right bicep aches, the left shoulder aches and the left knee aches. I knew the knee would play up without doing leg press and extensions for two months but I’m right back to starting again with the rehab to get the knee to work at a reasonable level. Not the first time Ive had to start from scratch, but I don’t like being back on the heavy pain killers.
I’m trying to concentrate more on photography with my leg playing up. It gets me moving more, trying to capture the perfect moment.
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